Gretel Ehrlich Quotes

Animals make us Human.

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.